1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.